Garrett Hedlund Boards Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' (EXCLUSIVE)

Angelina Jolie is helming the film with the Coen brothers doing the latest pass on the script. Earlier drafts were written by William Nicholson and Richard LaGravenese.

Pic is based on the Laura Hillenbrand book "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption," that follows the true story of Lou Zamperini who was a Los Angeles high school track star who raced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1943, his Air Force plane crashed in the Pacific. He survived without food and water for 47 days, enduring shark attacks, aerial attacks and hunger before washing ashore on a Japanese island behind enemy lines, where he was held as a prisoner of war for two years and tortured by his captors.

Hedlund would play the leader of the camp where Zamperini is being held.